"This Commentary on the Meaning of"The Continuously Blossoming Lotus Rosary Assembly Palace" Called "The Light Rays of the Youthful Sun" was composed at the request of many Chinese lamas; Tamang Lama; many Bhutanese lamas; Lama Ngodrub of Western Tibet; Lama Sonam of Northern Tibet, who is always s...

Creative Vision and Inner Reality http://www.shangshungpublications.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/CoverCreativeVision2-205x300.jpg CREATIVE VISION and INNER REALITY is a translation of Easing the Beginner’s Way: the Essential Points of Creation and Completion, written in verse at the age of twenty...

My lama's advice is not to race through a Dzogchen text, but read a small amount a day and really digest it. That is very true. For a structural break down I think ChNN's Cryastal & the Way of Light, though not a huge book, is unmatched in it's complete scope & modern approach to subdivisions of ar...

I wish for all diversity to remain not be evolved out and exteminated as major extremist right wingers said and in effect desired. The records are there and there will be more blogs. Also we still have the gurus as ultimate arbiter who love the Dalai lama and karmapa tulku lineages and will not allo...

Username, I think you're mistaking the "path(s) of Dzogchen" for the "State of Dzogchen," which is what Namdrol is talking about. No you are engaing in damage limitation by falsifying the subject in support of your friend again. The Urgyen Karmapa which I have faith in as a genuine tulku of the las...

Okay, then they should all be in perfect agreement in their teachings. Dzogchen masters are, when it comes to discussing Dzogchen. So if it was Dzongsar Khyentse tulku & Khenpo Choga as stated here we see the above statement by Malcom is false as there are disagreements since Dzongsar Khyentse Rinp...

I don't mind the criticisms by followers (who never met him) of other lamas who had a history with Trungpa, I actually admire the extent of their loyalty to their gurus, which however should not sanction attacking a major contemporary Terton. Many of the critics who did meet Trungpa though seem to h...

We are taught if they have experienced the genuine state then yes but there is no way to put that into words or concepts to debate. Hence personal experience of the knowledge. But that is Dzogchen, no? The rest is just dew and cobwebs. Yes but they tell us we are ignorantly trapped in causality & t...

We know there are differences of opinion on ngondro, etc. You are wrong on both counts. Are there differing opinions on rigpa (or whatever the translation du jour is - maybe I've just answered the question...)? We are told rigpa is not a matter of semantic, cognition, concepts etc. but of ineffable...

We know there are differences of opinion on ngondro, etc. You are wrong on both counts. Are there differing opinions on rigpa (or whatever the translation du jour is - maybe I've just answered the question...)? We are told rigpa is not a matter of semantic, cognition, concepts etc. but of ineffable...

It is wrong to state all Dzogchen masters are united when discussing Dzogchen. ChNN often tells the story of when he was staying with Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche in Nepal and three Dozgchen masters, couple of Khenpos and a tulku, suddenly appeared to debate him in the presence of TUR on why ChNN is wrong...

It is wrong to state all Dzogchen masters are united when discussing Dzogchen. ChNN often tells the story of when he was staying with Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche in Nepal and three Dozgchen masters, couple of Khenpos and a tulku, suddenly appeared to debate him in the presence of TUR on why ChNN is wrong ...

Shakyamuni said as you bite into gold check my teachings for yourself first without taking my word for it. In Vajrayana taking a root guru is much more serious. Also as the metaphor of a snake in the bamboo shows, one either goes up fast or down in Vajrayana. This is no joke or trivial matter as som...

@ReasonAndRhyme: I did not name anyone in my last two posts. I addressed your error in misreading & misunderstanding basic communication, posts or the book I quoted here first & it's references. You do not mention your accusation which I proved false. But continue to question me in a hostile tone. I...

I did not say pure visions or ordinary visions or even fake tertons but: "major fake tertons do not make up their terma". Specially the ones who themselves detail how certain beings bring them so called "terma" or describe red lettering signs etc manifest in front of them by those beings. These are ...

One must avoid false tertons who are reincarnated long term enemies of Padmasambhava and Yeshe Tsogyal who: 1- Tell some people they are not tertons. But tell others they are tertons as we see by themselves openly as well as their aides. 2- Make up funny combination deities and fake tantric figures ...